{"id":3225,"date":"2008-06-08T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:31:20","slug":"design-favicons-for-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/design-favicons-for-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Favicons for Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/google-favicon-redesigns\/\">Google changed their favicon<\/a>, the small logo that appears in the browser location bar, bookmarks and browser tabs. Its seems a large proportion of the blogosphere did not like the favicon and now Google is running a contest for you to help them design Google favicons.<\/p>\n<p>They have <a href=\"https:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish.html\" rel=\"noopener\">already tried<\/a> a lot of favicons &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_7ZYqYi4xigk\/SEnK37orPGI\/AAAAAAAAAp4\/gR3gdZ6sgbU\/s400\/favicon_iterations.jpg\" alt=\"Google Favicons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Test you designing skills and<strong> Create a Google favicon <\/strong>using the following guidelines &#8211; 16 pixel x 16 pixel image, in .png, .gif, or .ico of size  5 KB with 32 bit alpha transparency.<\/p>\n<p>They suggest<strong> some ideas that might work<\/strong> for you.<br \/>\n*  Make the shape and profile visible.<br \/>\n* Incorporate some or all of the letters in &#8220;Google.&#8221;<br \/>\n* Utilize the primary colors that are used in the Google logo.<br \/>\n* Avoid being product specific.<br \/>\n* Be timeless.<\/p>\n<p>Submit the favicon idea by  June 20, 2008 and your favicon could be visible on billions of pageviews on Google properties. Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chami.com\/html-kit\/services\/Favicon\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Favicon from Pics<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.dynamicdrive.com\/favicon\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Favicon Generator<\/a> to convert your images to favicons and get started, but remember the guidelines. You can also try a <strong>professional icon editor<\/strong> and icon software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microangelo.us\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Microangelo<\/a> to create original stunning favicons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Google changed their favicon, the small logo that appears in the browser location bar, bookmarks and browser tabs. Its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}